From: Michael Neumann <neumann@...>
Date: 2001-07-17T21:51:13+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:17995] Re: Movement in scripting language communities to integrate XML-RPC

James (ruby-talk) wrote:
> One of my gazillion side projects is to assemble a reasonable
> web-app framework, so that when asked to put up a web site I can do so
> quickly, and get the 80% "common to all web site" capabilities in place
> with 20% of the effort.
> 
> I'd *rather* do this sort of work in Ruby, but reality says that not
> every hosting environment will have Ruby, and I'll rarely have the
> ultimate say over this.  So I need to construct scripting components
> in some more available language, such as PHP3, so that there is a t
> least a  minimal set of objects that can be installed most places.
> 
> However, I would like to plan for the ability to have different objects
> written in different languages play well with each other.  PHP, Ruby, Perl,
> will let me call other scripts using system calls, but this strikes me
> as really inefficient.  I've been thinking that an XML-RPC interface
> would be nice, though I don't know that it would grant much in performance.

You probably gain not much in performance, but it will be more flexible.
You might have a look at Sandstorm: http://sstorm.sourceforge.net
It's a component architecture based on XML-RPC. Currently supported languages 
are Ruby, Perl, Python and PHP.

Regards,

  Michael


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